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Extreme Dirt Track Nationals
Round #3 - Greenbrier, AR
Twin Creeks Raceway
June 24, 2006
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Lonestar Racing's
Keith Little Wins Midnight Main Event
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Extreme Dirt Track
Round #3 - Links |
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Greenbrier, AR - When late Thursday
night storms drenched the Greenbrier, Arkansas Twin
Creeks facility many Dirt Track regulars were ready
to rename the 2006 Extreme Dirt Track ATVA Nationals
to the “Extreme WET Track” Series. Friday
night practice was a no go after futile attempts were
made to scrape the inches of mud off this well know
and liked dirt track circuit. With Saturday morning
bringing blue skies and rays of hope and sunshine, Terry
Reynolds, the event promoter and track owner, put his
troops to work and by 9:30 A.M. all was good to go.
From that time on it was nothing but the sound of four
stroke and two stroke thunder roaring out of the Twin
Creeks valley. By 12:30 Saturday night, Reynolds and
crew had hosted a two and a half hour practice session,
all the heats and LCQs, and, all the youth, amateur
and Pro mains. Three hundred and fifty or so racers
frustrated by rain outs over the first two rounds of
the ’06 series left Greenbrier happy and content
with a weekend full of high speed racing and all Extreme
Dirt Track frustration erased by the 3rd round at Twin
Creeks.
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#12 Keith Little picks up where he left off at
Steel City MX with yet another Overall Win |
Proving that marriage can be a plus, Lonestar’s
Keith Little put his Honda on the racer’s edge
by winning both the Pro class main event and the Pro/Am
Production main event. Putting himself in the lead early,
Little did not ever consider looking back to see who
might be chasing him to the checkers. The wins at Greenbrier
added to Little’s new found “matrimonial
inspired” race momentum. The week prior at the
Steel City round of the MX Nationals he’d beat
out the likes of Jeremiah Jones, Doug Gust, John Natalie
and Joe Byrd to take his first win on the year in that
series. Seems as if married life has been good to Little
even though he’s only been an ex-bachelor since
the first of June.
Following Little to the podium in the Pro class were
Team Motorsport.com Honda’s Tim Farr and Rath
Racing’s Daryl Rath. Farr had taken the win in
the Pro/Am Unlimited class earlier in the evening but
couldn’t quite keep Little’s pace during
the Pro main. As for Rath, his ride was on a third place
pace in both the Pro class and Pro/Am Unlimted classes.
He took the third place main finish in both classes.
After the Twin Creeks round of the ’06 Extreme
Dirt Track ATVA Nationals the Pro Class was headed up
by Tim Farr with 55 points followed by Keith Little
in second with 51 points and Harold Goodman with 37
points. The Pro/Am Production counted down with Goodman
and Little tied for the lead with 55 points each and
Scott Morris of North Carolina rounding out the top
three with 33 points. The Pro/Am Unlimited class found
Greenbrier’s own Mitch Reynolds holding on to
the points lead with 55 points trailed in second and
third by Chris Gary of Kentucky in second with 43 points
and Daryl Rath in third with 42 points.
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#67
Daryl Rath is put in yet another impressive race
finishing out the Pro race with a podium finish |
#137
Mitch Reynolds used his hometrack advantage to
claim the second place finish in Pro Am Unlimited
behind Tim Farr |
Amateur
After winning a national championship in the youth classes
in ’05, Michael Blanchard stepped up to the Production
B class and the 16/24 class for the 2006 season. Talent
runs deep in this young man’s racing veins and
it’s showing so far this year. In the Production
B class he’s taken a win, a second and a third
and currently owns the points lead in the class. Trailing
Blanchard’s 76 accumulated points are Perry Marner
with 66 points and Candace Lee with 66 points setting
a tie at this time for the second place position. Crossing
the checkers at Greenbrier, Blanchard took the main
win with Lee taking second and Marner third.
Blanchard trails Ohio’s Ryon Partee in the overall
16-24 series’ standings but that hasn’t
hampered his drive to win. At Twin Creeks, Blanchard
took home the main win with Tony Poalillo bring down
second and Stephen Kiss capturing a third place main
position. With three rounds in the books, the 16-24
class top three slated Partee in first, Blanchard second
and Rusty Tanner of Missouri in third.\
Women
She’s one bad chick-a-dee and that’s good.
Candace Lee of Four Oaks, North Carolina competes in
as many classes as the rules allow in a nationally sanctioned
event – Three. She’s leading the Women’s
class with three straight round wins to her credit,
running first in the 4-Stroke-B class with two wins
and a third place finish, and, sits in third place in
the Production B class just behind series’ points
leaders Blanchard and Marner. To say that she not only
lays waste to the women of the Women’s class and
is doing a fine job of “ego busting” in
the predominately male dominated Production B and 4-Stroke-B
classes would be an accurate statement by any ATV media
outlet.
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Candace Lee has been a dominate force on the track
this year as she chases after the Women's Championship
along with the Production & 4 Stroke B Titles |
#48
Bailey Williams with her bright pink Honda 450R
finished out the weekend in second place and currently
in second place in points as well |
During the Twin Creeks round 3 races, Lee captured
the win in the Women’s class and 4-Stroke-B class
while posting a second place finish in the Production
B class. This laid the overall series’ standings
in each class as:
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4 Stroke B |
Production B |
| 1. Candace Lee (90) |
1. Candace Lee (81) |
1. Michael Blanchard (76) |
| 2. Bailey Williams (71) |
2. Justin Hess (50) |
2. Perry Marner (66) |
| 3. Paula Shank (57) |
3. Jesse Rutherford (46) |
3. Candace Lee (66) |
Youth
Joel Hetrick of Hetrick Racing out of Seneca, Pennsylvania
beat out Michael Blanchard in the ’05 chase for
the 90 Modified National Championship but has seen his
share of woes this season. After three rounds, one of
which Hetrick missed, Matthew Carter of Arkansas leads
the 90 Mod pack overalls with 85 points followed by
Ryland Johnson with 72 points and Hetrick with 50 points.
These three on any give weekend of Extreme Dirt Track
racing can be seen battling back and forth in both the
heats and mains and everything in between. So far this
year, Carter has netted two wins and Johnson one. At
Twin Creeks, Carter took the win with Hetrick second
and Johnson third.
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Shane Hitt gives some guidance to his son Logan
Hitt |
There’s a new bunch in town and their daddy’s
are veteran races. Tucker Rath, son of Daryl Rath well
known dirt track national champion, and Logan Hitt, son
of Shane Hitt multiple time National DT and TT Champion,
have made their racing debut during the ’06 Extreme
Dirt Track ATVA Nationals. Although both of these 50cc
Stock Limited competitors are just now getting their feet
wet in the dirt track arena and at times are more interested
in looking at daddy in the mechanic’s area or the
crowd in the grandstands, they will surely become top
competitors as they follow in their father’s foot
steps. Hitt in his first two outings this season finished
8th and 9th in the class while Rath finished 6th and 7th.
Not a bad beginning for youngsters with deep roots in
the EDT arena.
Taking the 50 Stock Limited win at Greenbrier was Alaexis
Wells from Cordova, Tennessee followed by Will Harness
of Arkansas and Sterling Davis of Missouri in second
and third, respectively. With three rounds in the books,
Nick Schriner and his DRR held on to first place in
the overall standings with 71 points whereas Cole McCray,
also DRR mounted, sat nestled into second place with
61 points in a tie with yet another DRR racer, Keegan
Adamson with 61 points. Topping off the top five in
the overalls were Beebe, Arkansas’ Will Harness,
a Kymco mounted youth, with 57 points in fourth and
Bryar Riley, a Kentucky based and Kawasaki mounted racer,
in fifth with 48 points.
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Jennifer
Rath cheers on the 50cc Limited Racers, which
included Tucker Rath |
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Extreme Dirt Track - Pro ATV Top 10 Results |
| Finish |
Rider
Name |
Brand |
1 |
Keith Little
| HONDA |
2 |
Timothy Farr
| HONDA |
3 |
Daryl Rath
| HONDA |
4 |
Shane Hitt
| HONDA |
5 |
Harold Goodman
| HONDA |
6 |
Brad Covington
| HONDA |
7 |
Trent W. Powell
| YAMAHA |
8 |
Zac Willett
| HONDA |
9 |
Michael P. Coburn
| HONDA |
10 |
Brad Riley
| HONDA |
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